Here are a montage of images depicting the contents of the handbag/man bag etc... belonging to the typical target audience member for our movie. Which i feel our main target audience is the male target audience.
Here as you can clearly see are pictures of things that a typical male would have. From the age range of 14-35 as their are things that the young male audience will have such as the Adidas bag and the football boots while the older med will have man bags and a nice pair of shoes. They would both have a mobile phone and also a ipod to listen to the music they would listen to. For example a young male audience would listen to hip-hop, RnB etc.. while a older male audience would go for more classic songs.
Here is an example of a little lifestyle summary: Max,26, an British born citizen born currently working at a travel angency, he loves to spend time with the family going out as well as hanging out with his male friends, for example going bowling with friends while watching family movies with his friends. He does not shop much but does like to go to game shops like GAME, Game station and other places such as HMV to buy some songs that he prefers. He does go shooping for clothes but not often, mainly going places like Top Man, River island,Sports direct, JD etc...
He is an example of a person that will suit our target audience as our film contains violence, suspense and action what you would expect from a typical male audience.
First of all the production my film is an independent student film. Therefore this would require a different type of distribution than a mainstream blockbuster. The reason for this is because we are limited to the use of the internet as we do not have millions of pounds to spend on distributing our film such as advertisements. The internet is used in many ways to to advertise and get views for small independent media productions in distribution/marketing and attracting an audience. The target audiences such as people from our college and also in general students as well. Their are so many examples to distribute an independent student film. Here are some examples of some:
Social network sites: Facebook and twitter.
Video sharing sites: Youtube, Vimeo and the BBC film network.
DVD release of 200 copies, Blogs, trailers, banners, Fliers, Trailers( which can be posted on the video sharing sites), Cinematic release, Local newspaper (maybe small review), Word of mouth, Film festivals etc...
The 3 media institutions/video sharing sites are good for distributing our student films as they each have advantages of using them.
First of all is Youtube which is a very popular site known to many people in the world, reaches a more wider audience to the other media institutions . It lets you post any video at all such as :Music, trailers,films etc... In addition it allows people to comment and 'like or dislike' videos to show how good or bad your video is.
Second media institution/video sharing site would be Vimeo. This is similar to youtube as it lets you upload videos, share videos and view videos. However it does not have the freedom to post any type of video as the site is used to upload movies and short independent movies. It attracts a more niche audience. Which does give us a wide range of audience.
Lastly the other example we looked at is the BBC film network. This allows people to actually provide real showcase videos/movies to go to the market for young film makers.
Examples of video's from video film networks.
Youtube:
This video is the most viewed on the youtube chanel hurtwood house media, the reason they found and attracted an audience by using this network/site is by having ratings and comments from people that have watched it.
They found and attracted their audience also by the comments and rating system such as likes however it does not have a dislike section as youtube does, which wont allow the audience to know if more like it or more dislike it unless you read all the positive comments to the negative ones. Also it does not show the amount of views.
BBC Film Network:
In this site the way they find their audience is the average ratings they have for example this video has a rating of 4 stars which is very good. Also people can also comment the same as YouTube or vimeo. Theirs a section that says ‘send to a friend’ which is also helpful as if a person likes it they can send it to another person for more ratings, although it might not always be good ratings. However this site does not have views for the video s it would be difficult to see if a lot of people have watched it or not.
Comparisons to my video would be me using a similar model such as Blogger where you can blog posts of videos. Also by receiving comments from other bloggers. However the difference would be in blogger you cannot have ratings from other users of the site. Also in Blogger you can be able to post pictures as well while the other sites wont be able to do that. Unless lets say YouTube posts pictures in a video but still then it would not be a normal image uploaded. Web competitions YouTube would probably get the upper hand as iit has a more wide range to the others as it is any type of video.
In order to answer question seven, the group got together and were each responsible for helping out with something in the film. Temi put together the Final cut production, Whilst, Lashmi and mehdi were responsible for writing the script and producing it for the voiceover. As a group, we then put the Final Cut production and the voiceover together, editing the voice in timing with the pictures and adding in fades. As a result we have this video shown below.
The things that are similar is when Emily has her hood up. This shows representation of age/youth as although she is played as a teacher she is disguised as a stereotypical teenager. The hood that she is wearing also conveys age as it is stereotyped for teens to wear hoods especially the bad ones, which Emily does play a part in as she is definitely not a good person.
One of the differences is that she is a female which goes against the stereo type as the teen being a male. Usually when it comes to violence it is a male that is shown doing the killing but in this case it is different.
This is the 9 screen shots of the opening of the film Se7en.
Here are the screen shots of our thriller opening, as you can see there are quite a few similarities in comparison to the screen shots from the movie Se7en.
I think that this title sequence is quite similar to the one our group made for our film. As most of the writing is the the same as ours, for example when it says a film by as we also had one. In addition the writing is behind the film while its playing this is also included in ours as some films just show the writing in a black background. Furthermore the 6th screen shot shows a marker that is crossing out a face similarly in our film there is a screen shot where the killer uses a marker to cut out Lashmi's name.
I am delighted with the feedback me and my group received as it is exactly what i wanted to hear for certain things we did in our film. As the picture shows their was a comment about the black and white color changed, this was a risk we took as it will either go really good or really bad at the end it was positive which is a relief. Also with the soundtrack it was a good outcome by our audience as they thought it suited the film which was another plus to our group. There was no bad comments at all so we did not need to worry about anything as it looked only good and positive to our audiences.
